Linux is powerful, but you can make your life easier if you have configured your shell and applications you use.

Currently, I provide a bash (shell) configuration and a list of package. More things may come later.

Shell

These files can be put in your home, or system-wide. I personally use them as system-wide configuration, with Debian. If you use it with another distribution, you may need some adjustments; or even better, you can pick some code snippets and directly add them to your configuration files.

Features

Basically, the first point was to make the difference between bash and login. So I updated the file to follow this rule. I made some clean, and I put some comments almost everywhere.

Login feature:

• When changing user, a little description appears about the user, it's permission, home, uid, gid, if he has some keys in its home ... Only informational, but can make your life easier.
• A function which detects if you are connected in serial (mainly used for broken VMs), and set TMOUT in this case to avoid opened shell.

Bash features:

• Builtin Variables for Colors and Regex (might be buggy, and not so easy to use)
• Dynamic and colored PS1 prompt, with fallback if too slow (see below)
• A list of predifined shell aliases and functions
• Completion enabled
• Command not found enabled
• Preset of programms for coloration (Less, tail, diff)
• Bash behaviour configuration

Each feature is not enabled by default, but you can enable them by calling the proper function.

Prompt usage

Example (in black and white):

jez@jezbordel:~/git/linux-personal-env/bash/profile.d tail -f /var/log/syslog & ; cat /IDontExists.txt
256 1:1 jez@jezbordel:~/git/linux-personal-env/bash/profile.d

Colors explanation:

• return code: it gives you the last return code of the last command, if not null
• jobs: it gives you running jobs, and paused jobs
• user: green if you are root, white if you are a normal user, yellow if you are a daemon user and red if the account doesn't allow shell
• double colon: usually white, it becomes yellow if the partition is 80% used, red if 95% used, and yellow if you are on Kernel filesystem (like /proc, /sys)
• path: usually in blue, it becomes yellow if you cannot write on this path (soooo usefull when you move your CWD from another terminal)

Note: This prompt can be a bit buggy, especially when your system become slow, or when you are on slow responding file systems. If the prompt detects some slowness, it will fall back to a simpler prompt. It is still experimental, but I didn't have any issue with that for now. You can edit some variables to modify its behaviour directly into the files.

Package list

It is a list of basic package I personnally use on my Debian systems. Feel free to google them to know what they do, and to adapt the package name to your distro. Nothing more.

Notes

Bash:

• The prompt may be improved to support git, svn, whatever shell. I guess I will need it later, so it may be implemented in some days. The point is nothing special, bu you might be interested to see how I set up the $PS1 variable. Package list:
• The default package (Debian) list can be also useful.

Sorry for the gramma spelling, I don't like to read again what I wrote :p (except for coding)

License

Thoses files are licensed under the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE 2. Please modify, update, fork, distribute, whatever!